Analysts don't rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet — Updated June 13 at 8:35 a.m. PDT with analyst comments on the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. — Shares of Yahoo continued to get hammered in early-morning market trading on Friday, in a sign that its Google search ad announcement …

Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check — After years of hype, noise and funding, the social networking sector is finally getting a harsh, but necessary, sanity check. — Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook …

AP responds on blog excerpting — I just received email that I assume is genuine with this statement from the AP: … Let's unpack this just a bit: AP is saying it's OK to link, but that they “get concerned” over use that is “more reproduction than reference or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.”

Google: we don't know how to make money from YouTube — ‘A whole new industry’ could be created around video advertising on the web, Google said, but it's not sure how — Google has said that it is still unsure how to make money from YouTube, the enormously popular video-sharing website it owns, but hopes to be able to do so soon.

Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support — Reader hominid.todd says that a Google rep emailed him about the long-awaited status of the Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3. Turns out they're discontinuing development on it. Here's Google's response to hominid.todd's inquiry:

Upload your PDFs! — I spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me! (You'll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.) The questions people ask tell me how we need to clarify and simplify …

Sony working on ‘break apart’ motion PS3 pad — Sony Computer Entertainment is working on a new controller for the PlayStation 3, which features the ability to ‘break apart’ into two separate units, each of which contains an accelerometer for ‘Wiimote-like’ motion-sensing functionality, GamesIndustry.biz understands.